LG Chocolate for Verizon?

We lusted after the LG Chocolate at CTIA Wireless this year because of its smooth touch-pad buttons and sleek design. Well, according to Phone Scoop, the LG Chocolate will be rebranded as the LG VX8500 for the U.S. market, with Verizon slated as the carrier. While the VX8500 looks the same, there are a few design changes compared to the Korean-made Chocolate, such as an iPod-esque D-pad wheel on the front face and a new version of the Verizon user interface. No release date yet, of course, but if what we heard at CTIA is any indication, it could be out later this year.

[wdh3007]

Obama has been bogged down with the oil spill which many are saying is his Katrina. The white house is desperate for a quick fix to the incident before November elections. We still have soliders fighting overseas that have yet to come home and a deficit rising some change. It is evident that Obama needs to step aside and let Biden take over for the rest of his term because he is unqualified and in over his head.

[ajvw]

that's a good one. if nobama is over his head bidden is 20 feet under

[askagain]

Today was another good opportunity to add shares of stock to your portfolio. How will people feel when stock prices go up and they keep missing opportunities to buy stock cheaply?

[curse914]

by bigmac456 June 4, 2010 9:10 PM EDT
Yea, right. The census bureau fires and re-hires monthly to inflate job numbers. Take that away and there was almost zero private sector growth. Pathetic. Take off the rose colored glasses, melch, and look around. This is Obama's economy and it sucks.

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No, it is our economy and proof positive an unfettered Market will eat its self.

[melchg07]

Lets see what the June #'s say. One big report out the other week was that productivity has slowed....so far employers have been pushing their workers to do more for less.....that only goes so far for so long.

June will be a bigger jobs month.

A tanking economy is like trying to stop a train.....I find it amusing how people think that the economy can turn on a dime.

I just want you pessimists out there to remember this moment because you are going to be decrying the next months jobs report.

[scoutsout80]

When the government hires 400k temporary workers to bag oil in the gulf? They should be hiring tankers to suck it up before it gets to shore

[bigmac456]

Yea, right. The census bureau fires and re-hires monthly to inflate job numbers. Take that away and there was almost zero private sector growth. Pathetic. Take off the rose colored glasses, melch, and look around. This is Obama's economy and it sucks.

[useyourbrains]

If you want more jobs, tell companies that are firing people in favor of automation to actually keep their people, get rid of the illegal aliens so that companies will hire legal workers and set up laws that no longer favor companies who outsource. Obviously, this is a simplified answer, but it is also reality. Companies need to realize that automation should be used to help people not replace them and tax breaks or some other incentive should be given to companies that follow this policy. Getting rid of illegal aliens would open up millions of jobs in areas such as construction which are seriously hurting now and stop America from being the laughingstock it is to most other countries today. Until the government changes the law so that it isn't cheaper for American based companies to outsource, those companies will continue to do so and American jobs will be lost.

[tuathadedannan]

Most of the technological advances made in the last few thousand years have been made with the intention of allowing fewer humans be more productive. At some point won't we as a society become so efficient that we simply won't need full employment (in the economic sense)? We are able to keep full employment going as long as the population consumes products and services at a level that keeps everyone working. This isn't the goal of technological advance, which is to do more with less. The dream of science fiction has been the robot, but if such a future does happen, what will people do? The answer has normally been: "design and build robots", but we don't need an entire population to do that. A vexing problem.

[pensacola8-2009]

While it is very true that job growth is not sufficient to warrant an delightful reaction with high celebration, many have held steadfast to the belief that jobs will grow at a celebration pace when the troops are all back home from Afghanistan and Iraq.

You can grow the economy, or fight the war, but you can't do both very well at the same time. We are exporting weapons for anyone else to buy and fight a war, as we did in WW-II.

Some political analysts say that President Obama has both his feet in the mud and little traction to move forward, unless someone takes his hand by forming a human chain to solid ground.

The economy is growing and Americans are retiring much of their personal debt that is enough to satisfy creditors to begin lowering their interest rates from their present choke-hold rates. The gains in debt retirement is being offset by many who are without employment and living off their savings and 401K's.

The economy needs both savers and debt repayment to gain traction and move forward. Only employed people can do that.

[drushsean]

Hey Libs, how's all that hope and change working for ya? Fact: Education costs money. Every generation we need to re-educate the uneducated and spineless that fall for the good sounding, empty promises made by the incompetent but articulate politicians. I hope all you wishy-washy independents finally get a pair, learn which side to pick then pick a side and quit voting in these idiots (can anyone say Jimmy Carter) like Obama("I will lower the seas!") every 30 years or so.

[texas_liberal]

its working out great, thank you.

[drushsean]

Tex: either you take joy in the suffering of others, which makes you a sadist, or you are building a wind farm on my tax dollars, charging $.11 per kwh even though it costs you $.90 per kwh. That makes you a socialist. Don't worry though my tax dollars will subsidize you and your tree hugger friends.

[retiredgustav]

Just think where we would all be if old John McCain and the Half brain got elected. Things wouldn't have beed any better and probably a lot worst.

[drushsean]

Hey gustav your kidding right? Using free market principles, McCain Palin would have allowed the crapping banks to fail, incentivized businesses to hire, and focused on the economy instead of worrying about bowing to every despot around the world or ramming an unpopular health insurance mandate (which is unconstitutional) down our throats. The economy would be on the rebound by now just like it did in '82, '94, and '02.

[jgg000101]

obama is going to get hammered for "hailing" this jobs report.
Nobody is buying it. He is going to end-up looking like a fool

[jgg000101]

I wanna know why mccartney didn't sing "Taxman".

[SoCal_Gridlock]

"Taxman" is a George Harrison song.

[scoutsout80]

Harrison wrote it but it was a Beatles song, so why couldn't McCartney sing it